Quotes About Comprehension

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

I believe in order that I may understand.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

Be careful to understand, not to respond when listening to others.

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot, and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot even if you don't understand her at all.

Humility, many know what it means, but few know what it is.

One day you will wake up and realize how amazing she really was and when that day comes, she will be waking up next to the man who already knew.

Love is something that can't be explained correctly, love is just one of those thing that you must feel to understand and now I understand love and because I've met you.

The amazing way you always seem to be able to read my mind.

To understand a woman, you have to listen to her when she is looking at you, not when she is talking.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Life is as difficult to live as it it to understand...

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand

Pitié" était l'un d'entre eux, et elle savait aussi dire "oui, s'il te plaît" et "qu'est-ce que tu veux?" En somme ce père avait appris à sa fille les rudiments de l'esclavage.

I would know it even in madness.

How will I explain it all Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to everybody?" "You know, people don't have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll probably not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either.

I mean', he says, 'that I don´t think you have any idea what it is like to be married to someone like you.' 'Like me?' 'Someone who knows everything about you, before you even know it yourself. Someone who can just loo at you and divine your deepest secrets, just with a glance. Someone who can tell what you are about to say- and what you might not- before you say it. It is' he says, 'both a joy and a curse.

She had the strange and unaccustomed sensation of having been observed and, perhaps, understood. How odd it was that the person who seemed to comprehend her, to see into her very soul, should be a man who had glimpsed her only once.

We may agree that genocidal violence cannot be understood as rational; yet, we need to understand it as thinkable.